Scilab Function
Last update : 16/12/2004

etime - Elapsed time

### Calling Sequence

  `e = etime(t2,t1)`

### Parameters

- `t2`: a vector with 6 or 10 values.
- `t1`: a vector with 6 or 10 values.
- `e`: number of seconds between `t2` and `t1`.

### Description

  t1 and t2 with 10 values: `t2` and `t1` must have format returned by `getdate`. In this case, their third, fourth and fifth values are ignored.
  t1 and t2 with 6 values: `t2` and `t1` must have format: T = [Year Month Day Hour Minute Second] with Second a number of seconds with milliseconds (e.g: 12.345).

`t2` and `t1` must have the same size.

`t2` et `t1` can be matrices with each line containing a format described above (all lines having same format).

### Examples

    t1=[2004 06 10 17 00 12.345]
    t2=[2004 06 10 17 01 13.965]
    E1=etime(t2,t1)
    t1=[2004 06 24 162 5 10 17 00 12 345]
    t2=[2004 06 24 162 5 10 17 01 13 965]
    E2=etime(t2,t1)

### See Also

`tic`, `toc`, `getdate`, `etime`,

### Authors

  V.C.